Friday, October 10, 2014

The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

Vivian Schuyler is a young woman who defied her parents by taking a job at Metropolitan magazine. One day, she receive in the mail a suitcase from her aunt Violet Schuyler Grant of whose existence she had never before known. Vivian begins to put together Violet's story: she was a physicist in prewar Germany who began in affair with Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army.

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